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Drew EndyDepartment of BioengineeringStanford
January 2009
Even Better (Group Meeting) Presentations
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Presenting at GM should help you with your research
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How can you quickly make a presentation that will help you get the most from GM?
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Consider starting your talk with one sentence answers to the following
sentences (next slide).
You might need to think about your answers to these questions ahead of time.
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1. Say what you are going to talk about
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1. Say what you are going to talk about
2. Say why it matters
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1. Say what you are going to talk about
2. Say why it matters
3. Say what you want or need from the group
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Good answers to the previous 3 questions will help the meeting stay on
track (there’s not a lot of time).
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FYI. The following slides provide some thoughts and examples on slide
preparation.
You don’t want to spend a lot of time preparing group meeting slides unless you will reuse them in a paper or talk later (you want to spend most of your
time doing the actual research).
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Avoid yellow text
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Tiny text is terrible
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One idea per slide
Titles can DECLARE
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(a bad and good example follows)
The figure shows the DNA samples run out via an electrophoresis gel
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The new vectors work
You have three audiences
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You have three audiences
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1. The Super Nerds
You have three audiences
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1. The Super Nerds
2. The Lost
You have three audiences
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1. The Super Nerds
2. The Lost 3. The Dozers (Dozers are Super Nerds who weren’t paying attention to your last slide but feel a strong need to understand everything and reorient quickly)
Simultaneous Slides(ideally, your slides should support all three audience types)
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15Carlson, Pace & Proliferation of Biological Technologies, Biosec. & Bioterror. 1(3):1 (2003)
DNA synthesis technology is improving exponentially
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Ability to build DNA from scratch improving exponentially
Carlson, Pace & Proliferation of Biological Technologies, Biosec. & Bioterror. 1(3):1 (2003)
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Ability to build DNA from scratchimproving faster than computers
Carlson, Pace & Proliferation of Biological Technologies, Biosec. & Bioterror. 1(3):1 (2003)
Drill Down & Zoom Out
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Drill Down & Zoom Out
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(Explore details as needed, but then zoom out to
provide orientation & perspective and allow for catch up. Follow a path like the letter “W”.)
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Consider your audiences
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Consider your audiences
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1. What do they know?
Consider your audiences
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1. What do they know?
2. What don’t they know?
Consider your audiences
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1. What do they know?
2. What don’t they know?
3. What do they want?
Sing to your goals
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Sing to your goals
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1. Why am I giving this talk?
Sing to your goals
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1. Why am I giving this talk?
2. What’s the best outcome?
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end early